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On Tuesday 25 November 2008 21:24:48 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: |
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> I have no expertise to decide on that matter, |
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> but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by |
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> default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop |
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> usage), no? |
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I don't think that has anything to do with performance or safety. Instead: |
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1. Red Hat suffers from a serious case of Not Invented Here Syndrome. They do |
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good work, but they have that little eccentricity too. ReiserFS was funded in |
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large part by SuSE, therefore RH are ill-inclined to use it. Many distros |
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follow Red Hat's lead, very few go with SuSE to wherever SuSE is going. Who |
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knows why Debian made their choice - it' s probably as simple as ext3 traces |
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it roots back much further than Reiser can |
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2. NameSys was largely driven by the fame (infamy?) of it's owner - a typical |
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mad scientist geek who writes excellent code. But he got himself in jail and |
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the risk associated with using his filesystem sans reliable know maintainer |
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is too great a risk for most distros |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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